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Release for CentOS 7 on AArch64
by Jim Perrin 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We would like to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 for AArch64 compatible machines. This is the first major release of CentOS Linux 7 for ARM/AArch64 produced by the AltArch Special Interest Group. This release uses a 3.19 based kernel as well as incorporating fixes and updates provided through-out the beta process. This release is built from sources available at git.centos.org from the c7, c7-ppc64le, and c7-aarch64 branches. Installation ============ This release provides media for a network install, as well as an Everything ISO that can be used for USB based installation if desired. This ISO is currently too large for standard DVD media, and so is best used via USB media. Additionally, a compressed disk image has been provided for rapid deployments of a development environment. Downloads ========= Everything iso: http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/aarch64/CentOS-7-aarch64-Everyth ing.iso sha256sum: 9294f741b4d63fd858e9234b86825fd214c1a86f91b9058d4d6440f96687a7a1 NetInstall iso: http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/aarch64/CentOS-7-aarch64-NetInst all.iso sha256sum: 1cd1bab57dbc49d43efd5fe540e02147814e0facaaeae26e3bedf9a317d24d7a Disk Image: http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/aarch64/CentOS-7-aarch64.img.xz sha256sum: 43930834944b3ac9c9348cc03ca1be215f5f96f3d6bd1a4100feaa34a92c1b69 Directions and Help =================== Hardware specific installation instructions can be found at http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/AArch64 Disk Image user/password information as well as the kickstart used to generate it is contained README at http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/aarch64/ReadMe.txt - -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVwEPEAAoJEBbHyC76Ca13i4gQAMJ6K4Jaju0lbnLeLUqJN9xz 4cxqM3VH3rqkMSZVHFzJis5OID8Q1DTzKsaugSxWS/FNoG7xyl1HrHqfm8i5RLii WVZ9unxzJCIfMDPQ4Bd0AkkBgnNpFfI+0SZx1TWmbrNfcaN6qgQPzUHX03akBUh3 fSAsesMJy1WSEYz+mmStKercwJmO/bgbgQ5Y11cmcWo5S/OYBP87bpgJQCje7zUN lZDXG+pdpq+U801MeqpXNVqUazUFN7VuXq9p+8ZwTaw9gNdPIJpwBwM5YdptELSh 2q/ORbvT6s73FkFI0FNjEOzgbCUme47J4vvhvPOw8EksyuNVFQRoAaTLCf25wJTb VKm0ndnKMfnnjl/8+7cVkcGjJS0weavExTXqeYwxSb58jTn6E/aAa6yUj1XQkb2i AydUBLhPzpuhvxy/G6QLJMGVUZL/fe9g+4cbMFUatp0Vyrv2GlBeCAQTSEiq8puz 76ByH3z/aXkN8qkPmlQc9ruFYidlm6l5dWT4pws1KL6lWbRC10z+SD2TVTZ2A7Eq WE2KCvmFRL1ai2TzuIVF8WLUDtfT6P0ZzkH+guz01sCTq8GCaORyn3fX/hmnqn95 S5fAg+/IbEri4T/r84/Ervy9DekyZfGW2YTfHQX4Kp1fDd5AghYgmXAvIeAV6+Ke 4xMMY5b/TI1op1UigvYl =+QdN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Announcing the CentOS Linux AltArch SIG
by Karanbir Singh 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone, It gives me great pleasure to announce the formation of the CentOS Linux AltArch Special Interest Group ( SIG ). This SIG will be setup and managed by community members who want to come and help port CentOS Linux to architectures and platforms not supported by the Core SIG itself. Note: this is not called secondary arch group, since the word secondary indicates some level of inferiority - and I would rather we use release tagging ( test, devel, alpha, beta etc ) rather than silo a group into always being only 'secondary'. The group would have the ability to import content as needed, adapt content as needed, deliver in media that is suitable and needed for the platform they are targeting. For vendor driven ecosystems where they own the entire platform and implementation of the platform ( eg. as seen in the ARMv7 and v8 space ), I encourage vendors to get involved with the effort - however do so without making it a role driven position. For the continuity of the effort, its far more productive for vendors to encourage individual level participation from their organisations into the CentOS AltArch effort. We will retain the requirement that all 'CentOS' branded content must be hosted, built and delivered from infra operated by the CentOS Infra team, signed with a CentOS key ( run by the Core SIG ) and must be freely redistributable ( in line with the CentOS Linux standards and requirements ). Working process - - All AltArch SIG's should aim to use the noarch generated from the x86_64 builds as much as possible - - All members of the AltArch group should have git.c.o commit access, all content built into an AltArch target should also be hosted at git.centos.org in a compatible format to the existing git repositories. git.centos.org: - - Create arch specific tags in the SIG as needed. eg: + altarch-aarch64 + altarch-power8 + altarch-i686 These arch' branches will/can be used to host spec file and source changes as needed specific to that arch. If a change is needed for multiple arch's, we just need to then carry it in all those branches ( but we can socialise the changeset to the other arch's that might benefit from this change ). the baseline assumption is that the core protected branch then only corresponds to the x86_64 distro for CentOS Linux 7, and for i686 + x86_64 on CentOS Linux 5 and 6. cbs.centos.org can grow targets as needed. These targets should map to the git branch names as much as possible, and as hardware is available to contribute into a central pool. Each koji target per branch should have the same tags as the generic SIG targets ( ie. candidate, testing, release ). Users in the altArch group should be able to pull from their own branch, the protected git branches, and other arch branches. SIG 'product' will be release as : - - to buildlogs and cbs.centos.org/repos/ as a testing / devel set of repos and installs as needed - - to mirror.centos.org as 'stable' but under a different SIG path. ( http://mirror.centos.org/altarch ) External mirrors will not receive this content by default. However, they can opt into receiving it and we encourage them to. For people who want to work on pre-release platforms, we can come up with a working process that helps them stage and release early on platform availability. This includes manual builds outside of the central pool, as developer PoC builds etc. The overall aim here is to be openly inclusive to extend the baseline platform that CentOS Linux can run on. In the coming days, we will organise an inaugural meeting on irc, and invite interested people to come help form the initial bootstrap admin group for the SIG. This initial meeting will also help formalise some of the work that has been happening around the edges already in the Aarch64, ARMv7, PowerPC and i686 platforms around CentOS Linux 7. If you are interested in being a part of this, for any of these architectures ( or others! ), get in touch with me. enjoy! - -- Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project +44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVv+EYAAoJEI3Oi2Mx7xbtcWgH/1zDX4kMntGx0d1XQi2+4fct iqrFxa0LbwWwQ8JkolLka0WZ+d7m3hG2l9UUM0mkd53UwJq5I2ftqmbDi5jcC2Go T2TYBBo09XWphk+QM1iPSdp/LwP/s3v+LDfB6Jtv+rJkPq9aWMc47UMz/hAyGTe6 UDy7eJSqB34Ew8elvMY0fuwGTgFSZINtp5ph+7H4oTjRDlOw2Y8rrokFf9C0pWvy 1wLDpD2yON/Dem10RnWnsaS2rbmRQ2kt17v/BiE3Eq8SvSEq7UWEnhl5UkBUJxJO CBXpulAdHeDxHq/0QTy1t2dsGYuTRxpCkibV0BeYb6QgpUENarhm32xvIKxn5r4= =DjuV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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